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A. S, Hubball.

Improvement in vm lorel las.

PATENTED SE1 1 3 1870 In? em: GIT

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ALGERNQN S. HUBBELL. OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

Letters Patent No.'107,374, dated September 13, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN UMBRELLA-FRAMES.

The Schedule referred to In these Letters Patent and making part. of the lame.

]!ramts, to enable them to be folded for carrying in a' satchel orsmall trunk; and the following is a in", clear, and exact description of the same, reference be: ing had to the accompanying drawing making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represent-s a vertical sectional view of the jointed rib, ball-aml-sockct hinge, center cup, and handle, for thlding umbrella and parasol-iranpes, as

spread.

Figure 2 shows a top view oi the socket hinge cap.

Figure 3 is an under side view of the same, showing the hall-hinges and portions of the upper sections of the ribs. v

Figure 4 shows a sectional view of the frame, as run up through the cap, for. folding.

Figure 5 is a parasol,.as folded for carrying.

Figure 6 shows a detached view of a plate-cap, for

securing the ball-and-socke't hinge frame.

The object. of my invention is to shorten the length of umbrellas and parasols as much as possible, for the convcl'iience of putting them into a satchel, carpetbag, or trunk, for traveling. My invention consists in the construction of the frame with ball-aml-socket. joints and ,cap, for securing the libs at the top in such a manner that the jointed upper portion may be shoved up through the cap, when the parasol is closed, and turned over to rcston the outside of the 'covering, thereby shortening the frame-work ot the ribs one-half of its length.

Also, in the peculiar construction of the joint and spring snap, for holding-the ribs or braces lirmly in their position, when the umbrella or .parasol is opened.

To enable others to make and use my improvements,

l will describe them more fully, referring to the drawing and to the letters marked thereon. The cap A may be cast; or struck up out of sheet metal, so as to leave the openings and sockets a w 11- ot' the proper form in receive the balls I; I; l; on :the ends of the hinged ribs ll ii.

The cap A has a stem of metal, '0, cast with or secured to it, to make the tip of the umbrella-staif I).

Onto the tip 0 is fitted a cap-plate, E,withnotchcs a e on the opposite sides ot'the central opening, so as to admit the projecting ends of the pin 0, which is put' through the tip 0, to pass through the ca -plate E, to hold it; on, by being slightly turned in e at direction on thetip, by which means the ball-hinges b D b are secured in their sockets in theflange or socket-capA.

To enable the upper portion of the ribs B B to be folded over, when they are pressed up through the openings in the cap A,t-he-y are provided with a pccullarly formed joint, 1* 1*, made of metal, which are firmly secured to the lower portion of the ribs B B,

the braces d (l (I being connected with the joints 1* I and the slide (l on the staff D, by which the umbrella is spread in the usual manner.

The joints 1 F are provided with notches, into which the upper portion of the ribs ll B lock, and are held in their places by catch springs f f, so that, when the ribs are brought in a line, and locked in the notches in the side of the joints, they are as firm and substantial as it there was no joints in the ribs.

'lhc umbrella or parasol may be used just the same as any ordinary one,it being as firm and durable, and more so, as the-lmll-and-socket joints are not so frail aml liable to get broken or out of order as the eye and wire in the ribs, on the tops of those ordinarily constructed, aml when desirable to pack it for traveling, it is easily folded in the following manner, to wit:

Turn the cap-plate E on the tip 0 until it; slips oil the pin 0, shove the ribs up through the cap A until the joints 1" 1* come jnstabovc the cap, fold the pulled portion of the covering it over the lower portion unlock each of the ribs' B B from the notches in the joints h l", and let them fall over on the outside of the covering. Jack up the. handle 1), and wiudthe elastic cordaround the whole. To open, reverse the order, as above.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters 1atcut, is-

An umbrella, having its top notches a acovered by a detachable cap, J), and provided with openings or such size as to admit. the passage of the ribs B and their joints, when the several. parts are to be folded, and F'tain'thcjr ball ends, when opcnthr use, as shown aml describell ni I In testimony whereof lv hereunto subscribe my name.

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